Eleventh arrest in UK tabloid hacking scandal

Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years, was arrested and later freed on bail over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid that has rattled Britains establishment, a source close to the case said.Police said a 71-year-old man had been released on bail to an unspecified date later this month after being arrested on suspicion of corruption and conspiring to intercept communications. The source said the man was Kuttner.A flood of revelations in the last month has generated a furore that has shaken Rupert Murdochs media empire as well as Britains press, police and political leaders.Kuttner was responsible for authorising payments from the paper, which was part of Murdochs News Corp. Law makers have been told that his office would have been responsible for any payments to private detectives.He stepped down unexpectedly in 2009 just before the Guardian newspaper began to publish a series of stories that phone-hacking activity at the News of the World was far more widespread than had so far been investigated.Eleven people have now been arrested this year in connection with the escalating scandal, which has forced the resignations of ex-News of the World editor and Murdoch favorite Rebekah Brooks, and Britains top two policemen.